Naked and Famous cocktail was created in 2011 by Joaquín Simó at Death & Co in New York City, USA.

The cocktail was published in David Kaplan 2014 Death & Co: Modern Classic Cocktail.

There, Simó has called the cocktail “the bastard child born of an illicit Oaxacan love affair between the classic Last Word and Paper Plane.”

Naked and Famous is also recognized by the International Bartender Association as a New Era Drinks.